FX Experience Has Gone Read-Only

I've been maintaining FX Experience for a really long time now, and I love hearing from people who enjoy my weekly links roundup. One thing I've noticed recently is that maintaining two sites (FX Experience and JonathanGiles.net) takes more time than ideal, and splits the audience up. Therefore, FX Experience will become read-only for new blog posts, but weekly posts will continue to be published on JonathanGiles.net. If you follow @FXExperience on Twitter, I suggest you also follow @JonathanGiles. This is not the end - just a consolidation of my online presence to make my life a little easier!

JavaFX 2.1 early access for Windows (build 06) now available

It has been a hectic few months for JavaFX releases recently (and before that it was a hectic year of development building up to JavaFX 2.0!). Today we have another announcement, but first, a quick timeline:

JavaFX 2.0 for Windows, and JavaFX 2.0 developer preview for Mac OS shipped at JavaOne in early October.

In mid-October we shipped JavaFX 2.0.1 for Windows. This was a security-only release.

Earlier this month JavaFX 2.0.2 was released, which included a huge number of bug fixes, optimisations, some new API, and an improved redistribution license.

The reason why I say we’re proud: we’re hitting all the targets we’re talking about, and the releases just keep getting better and more featured. JavaFX 2.1 is going to be a more substantial release, and I’m so pleased we can get you early versions of it so soon.

Now, a word of warning: don’t use the early access releases in production – it is pre-beta code and will be more buggy than 2.0.2. We’re putting this out for public use so people may test the new features and provide feedback.

JavaFX requires a newer version of the Java browser plugin, and so far that has only been shipped on Windows. The Mac & Linux versions are coming this next year as Mac & Linux are GA’d. So until then a JavaFX applet wouldn’t be able to run on all platforms, so it wouldn’t probably be useful in an applet context until then.

JavaFX 2.1 is a feature release, so it will include many new features eventually. From the UI controls team (the team I’m in), there are new charts and a new ComboBox control in the current builds. I’m sure there is plenty more, but there isn’t a public list of highlights yet – that’ll come when JavaFX 2.1 ships I guess.

Hi
I had the same question but about browsers. System requirements shows there’s a lack about using JavaFX with some versions of Mozilla Firefox and JavaFX roadmap has no mention about that. Do you have any information
Thanks